 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 562 pages
...of benevolence, and readiness of occasional kindness; but to love all equally is impossible," &c. " The necessities of our condition require a thousand...dictate. Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which, would remain for ever unheeded in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. FRIENDSHIP. THE necessities of our condition require a thousand...dictate. Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...of benevolence, and readiness of occasional kindness ; but to love all equally is impossible. . . . The necessities of our condition require a thousand...dictate. Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...of benevolence, and readiness of occasional kindness ; but to love all equally is impossible. . . . The necessities of our condition require a thousand...dictate. Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place. Idler, No. 23. THE necessities of our condition require a thousand...dictate. Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 212 pages
...But the complexity does not end here. In the same essay Johnson introduces another related matter: "The necessities of our condition require a thousand...which mere regard for the species will never dictate" (YJ 4:166). Benevolence, fellow feeling, and acts on behalf of others are not the result of a minimalist... | |
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The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain... 
